YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 27

Today is Saturday, April 27, the 117th day of 2019. There are 248 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1521: Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines.

1865: The steamer Sultana, carrying freed Union prisoners of war, explodes on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tenn.; death-toll estimates vary from 1,500 to 2,000.

1941: German forces occupy Athens in World War II.

1950: Britain formally recognizes Israel.

1965: Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow dies two days after turning 57.

1978: Fifty-one construction workers plunge to their deaths when a scaffold inside a cooling tower at the Pleasants Power Station in West Virginia falls 168 feet to the ground.

1982: The trial of John W. Hinckley Jr., who shot four people, including President Ronald Reagan, begins in Washington.

2006: Construction begins on the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower at the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.

2011: Powerful tornadoes rake the South and Midwest; more than 120 twisters cause 316 deaths.

2009: A 23-month-old Mexico City toddler dies at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, becoming the first swine-flu death on U.S. soil.

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1994: Al Nagi Sr. of McDonald says he and his family want answers behind the disappearance of his daughter, Charlotte Nagi Pollis, 28, who left her Girard home six weeks earlier without shoes, coat, car keys, identification or money. They have not heard from her husband, Paul Pollis, since the day she went missing.

Warren police have been issued new parking-ticket forms and are back to writing up errant parkers. They stopped issuing tickets in May after the 11th District Court of Appeals ruled that Warren’s tickets didn’t contain enough information to allow motorists to contest the tickets.

A former Campbell resident, Robert C. Gore, 28, seeking a job as a Campbell police officer files a complaint with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission charging that the exams are “manipulated” to benefit white men.

1979: Two women, one from Youngstown and one from Salem, are killed in separate traffic accidents in Mahoning County. Dead are Elizabeth Moore, 52, of Youngstown, and Dolly M. Ford, 29, of Salem.

Farrell City Council gives final approval for construction of a $122,000 community social service center in the Southwest Gardens urban renewal area.

John Norman is mayor for the day, Missy Rogers is superintendent of schools, and Tim Glass presides as municipal court judge when Girard High School students assume new roles during Civics Day.

1969: Eight-year-old Daniel R. Hutcheson of Calla Road, Salem, helping his brothers pick up trash along the road, is struck and killed when he stepped into the path of a passing car.

Five Youngstown men and a former Warren resident are among 176 applicants who passed the state bar examination: William R. Copperman, James J. Corbett, Martin N. Goldsmith, Ronald C. Mostov, Thomas F. Norton and James P. Puckett.

Thirty-nine years of firefighting end with the retirement of Earl B. Jones, dean of the captains in the Sharon City Fire Department.

1944: Emery Schonce, 96, one of the two Civil War veterans in this district, dies at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Grace Hohnsob in Coalburg. He served in the 10th Ohio Cavalry, was in Sherman’s army and went on the historical March to the Sea.

Youngstown Airways Inc. is awarded a two-year exclusive lease of the Youngstown Municipal Airport hangar and gasoline/oil concessions by the city board of control for a high bid of $4,800 a year.

District high school students will have the opportunity of passing first judgment on two new rides at Idora Park on The Vindicator’s 13th annual high school days. They are “Honeymoon Trail” and “Aerial Joy Ride.”